Unnatural Kingdom

        In the article, The Unnatural Kingdom by Daniel Duane, it talks about about animal conservation methods. The article discusses 2 different methods to help with the extinction of animals. The first method has to do with allowing a population of a species reach a sufficient amount, and then relocating them to establish new herds. The second method is to track the populations and hunt the animals that affect the sizes of other populations. These methods have many similarities, and many differences.

        The two methods have lots of similarities in how they work. Both of the methods are for controlling the size of populations, and help endangered species. They both require lots of human intervention on the environment. They also both require for the entrapment of the animals at one point or another. Both require high end technology to track the animals.

        Similarly to their similarities, the two methods have many differences. For one, the first method requires lots of resources to be able to move them, where as the second method requires lots or resources to be able to hunt the necessary animals.The first method also deals with a direct disturbance to the population, where the second one deals with it with out touching the endangered population. The second method requires the intentional killing of another wild animal, which the first methods has no need for.

        I believe that the second method has a greater chance of success. With the direct impact of getting rid of the very thing that hurts the endangered animals population will allow for them to thrive very easily. Also, lots can go wrong with the relocation of the animal.

        The sheep are less diverse because when the population shrunk, only a few were left to breed with. And once you start breeding between the few left, the off spring only have those select genes, with the others ones dying off. Since those genes are gone, they won't be in the gene pool for the new bred sheep.  Conversationalists are attempting to improve genetic diversity using the first method with relocation.

        The animals should still be considered "wild," because they do normal activities. They find their own food, live their own lives, and do things with out the aid of humans. Sure the humans impact their lives, but they still live as independent animals.